The Covid-19 pandemic and a derecho will stand out as memories of 2020. Although the first diagnosis of Covid-19 in Iowa was March 8, the first case wasn’t identified in Greene County until April 5. As of May 1, there was still only one case, although schools and many downtown businesses were closed due to a state declaration of public…
Read MoreDay: December 31, 2020
Wolf shares thoughts on Covid-19 as 2020 ends
Becky Wolf, RN, Greene County public health director, provided the following commentary with her final Covid-19 update for the year. “Since February 2020, we’ve been living in a historic period of the 21st century, the COVID-19 pandemic, a novel virus that has stricken millions and caused over 300,000 deaths in the United States, not unlike the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.…
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